General Cycling Discussion - Any one else sick of the $%#@ rain!

Any one else sick of the $%#@ rain! Here in Pittsburgh. we have had 21 days of rain in April and May isn't starting any better. I am missing my evening rides. I really look forward to the longer days when I can ride in the evening but I don't think I have been able to do one this year! :mad:

Yesterday I would have agreed with you. But today was so beautiful, I'm cured.

Hope your weather clears soon.

We are over twenty inches for the last week of April
and the first few days of May, That is half of our
annual amount. The camp grounds around the lake
are under water but they think it will not hurt as
gas prices will keep the numbers down. About
a third of the camp sites are not usable.

Yes, I am sick of the rain and cold. 36 this morning.
20` below normal.

Where I live it's been super dry. The problem is we are having horrible wind. Sometimes even enough to throw you off your bike. Also there are mosquito swarms everywhere.

Been monsoons, here in Ohio. I think we've been getting something like one or two days a week, without rain, and never in a row. Starting to wonder if it's time to build an ark.

Rainy here in New York too. I've been riding anyway. The Terratrike is very stable in wet conditions. I do miss my contact lenses though! I wear glasses to save some money and I need wipers on them! ha

My wife says I've been quacking in my sleep. :eek:

My girlfriend and I both agreed this morning that it is, indeed, getting freakin old. All this rain. But I guess it'll make us appreciate it all the more when it clears out.

I'm glad the rain is finally stopping here in the Burg. Hope to be going for a ride tonight on one of the local trails.

That's not exactly what she said.

If seems like it has rained for 40 days and 40 nights here, I am very sick of it. I planned to go for a long ride today but there are very dark ominous clouds moving in.
My wife says I've been quacking in my sleep. :eek:

I should have ridden my bike in today. Even a non-rainproof jacket stopped the rain on my walk up the hill.

I should buy tires that can handle wet road.

In the UK it's so dry we've been having forest and moorland fires in April. No rain for many weeks and a slight possibility of some by the end of this week.

A friend in Arizona says the drought conditions are pretty bad. She said there was a huge pow wow of the local native american nations and they had a rain dance that was very impressive.

here in my little corner of The Great Mojave Desert, it's been windy for about forever. and as big as i am, i've adopted the nickname, La Viole (French for: The Sail)

Sunny days have a shutter speed out here.
OK right now , but I never go anywhere without rain-gear..

next month could be Juneuary again. :innocent:

We've had excessive precipitation for several months in a row, first as snow and now as rain. We managed to break two records within four months of each other...snowiest December on record and rainiest April on record. Our spring temperatures are averaging 15 to 20 degrees below normal.

The results....most WNY farmers are three to four plantings behind schedule due to fields that resemble rice paddies. School sports and town youth sports programs have all but stopped due to submerged or water-saturated playing fields. Streams are very, very high. The Finger Lakes are dangerously high causing many new and uncharted barely submerged objects that are threatening recreational boating. There's so much moisture in the soil that there are large puddles of standing water on our sandy beach!! I'm seeing standing water where I've never ever seen it before..and I've lived here for 60 years! It's still raining.

I fear that the economic hits, ranging from agriculture to tourism and recreation are going to be numerous and very difficult to deal with.

Oh, it also makes riding much less enjoyable.

Yes, I'm getting a tad bit frustrated with all this rain.

My wife says I've been quacking in my sleep. :eek:

If you are lying on your back when it happens, are you quacking up? :lol:

No rain predicted for tomorrow night! Woohoo! I think I will go for a ride! Plus sunny this weekend with scattered showers. I will take what I can get! :)

It's been beautiful down here in Texas, except for wind. But it's always something. In another month, the heat will be on, big-time.

Been monsoons, here in Ohio. I think we've been getting something like one or two days a week, without rain, and never in a row. Starting to wonder if it's time to build an ark.

i got out today for a little while..but other than that i haven't been able to ride in days :[ and next week isn't looking too much better.

I would take rain in LA any day over the sand thats gotten into every part of my drivetrain.

In the UK it's so dry we've been having forest and moorland fires in April. No rain for many weeks and a slight possibility of some by the end of this week.
Indeed and temperatures up in the 20s C (70s F). Our driest and warmest on record.

And now the bad news ... Apparently records show that a warm, dry April in the UK has a 70% chance of being followed by a cool, cloudy, wet summer - just like the last 4 crappy ones! :(

April and so far in May have been cold, windy (20-30mph), and rain most days. What happened to spring anyway?

Install fenders
grow a pair
problem solved.


I exceeded my mileage goal for April by 15%. Commuted every workday, got in at least one club ride every week.

I got to work dry today...I feel like a duck out of water.

Install fenders
grow a pair

problem solved.


I exceeded my mileage goal for April by 15%. Commuted every workday, got in at least one club ride every week.

I jsut dont wanna freeze them off. it was 34-38 degrees this morning. I still dont beleive in fenders.

How can this be? It was almost "too hot" to ride in LA yesterday...:D

How can this be? It was almost "too hot" to ride in LA yesterday...:D

Because you yuppies in LA complain it's "too hot" when you can see the sun through the smog and you sweat a little bit trying to drink your lattes. My preferred environment is an active volcano! (It's 60 degrees outside and I'm wearing two coats...)

Not really, as long as I can stay warm, and I usually can, I'm happy

Some of my best rides have been in the rain. Get some rain gear and go insane.

I agree that we are all capable of riding in the rain. That doesn't help all the folks who are negetively impacted financialy by our copious amounts of precipitation though.

Here's an example where our state tourism is taking an early hit. Granted it is a small hit at this point but in these difficult economic times every penny counts.

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S2097848.shtml?cat=565

That's almost three quarters of the canalway that is still closed!! If I understand this correctly, early voyagers coming up the inland waterway have no way into the Great Lakes now unless they choose to continue north to the Gulf of St Lawarence. How many economies other than N.Y.'s are being impacted now?

On a positive note though...things are finally starting to dry out some and the predicted temps. for the next week look to be at or near normal. :)

YES YES YES...J.P. Is it ever gonna stop?
The weather forecast (are they ever right?) for this weekend is dry and sunny Ditto for next weeek.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Last year this time I was closing in on 700 miles of riding.
This year..haven't cracked 150

Raining again today (Saturday)!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I had planned to go out for a ride too.

I rode to the health club last night and got rained on, on the way back! :notamused::notamused:


Looks like it might clear a bit later so maybe I will be able to still get in a ride today.

So. .. what's that big boat for, Noah? :rolleyes:

Should I feel bad that I get satisfaction from hearing of others suffering? On the Oregon Coast, I just read in the paper we had the coldest, wettest winter on record. When it's sunny in the rest of the pacific northwest, we often are under an oppresive marine layer.

Some local landmarks:
Cape Disappointment
Cape Foulweather
Dismal Nitch

Oregon apparently wasn't settled by optimists :)

I am with you, sick of the rain here in Pittsburgh and on the only two decent days this past month I have not been able to get free of other commitments so missed riding. Two weeks ago I just went out and rode in the rain anyway and enjoyed it enough to go out on a couple more rainy days too. I just built up a new Fargo that has been itching to get out of the stable so had to do something!

Any one else sick of the $%#@ rain! Here in Pittsburgh. we have had 21 days of rain in April and May isn't starting any better. I am missing my evening rides. I really look forward to the longer days when I can ride in the evening but I don't think I have been able to do one this year! :mad:

I am a newbie, but he crew around here hipped me enough to get a "beater" bike for bad weather.. Bring on the rain.. My rust bucket beater bike takes in in style...Here it with rain coat in the back. It stopped raining for an hour...;)


http://www.cehoward.net/granprix31.jpg

I'm tired of the rain. I still commute in it, it's just hard to get motivated for an extra 5-30 miles when it might go from sunny one minute to the kind of storm that would turn my three hour tour into a 3 season sitcom...

Should I feel bad that I get satisfaction from hearing of others suffering?

Schadenfreude: that's what stairs are for.

I am a newbie, but he crew around here hipped me enough to get a "beater" bike for bad weather.. Bring on the rain.. My rust bucket beater bike takes in in style...Here it with rain coat in the back. It stopped raining for an hour...;)


http://www.cehoward.net/granprix31.jpg

Awesome beater man.


Anyway, how much rain do you guys get? I live in Oregon and we get quite a bit of rain (in fact a ton of people move to Portland only to complain about the rain... drives me nuts!).


EDIT: I only ask because from my perspective the rain we get here in Portland is totally manageable. It doesn't bother me at all. I commuted my first winter through hail, rain and snow with no fenders and **** for gear (I didn't even have gloves... I just did my commute, showed up to work with hands that were numb, washed them in warm water despite intense pain, went on about my day).

Yes, I'm sick of rain. Mostly when the weatherman tells me something wrong. :(
My feet get soggy. I don't have cycling shoes.
I still ride in it.

Then again I hate it when it gets too hot.

Yes, I'm sick of rain. Mostly when the weatherman tells me something wrong. :(
My feet get soggy. I don't have cycling shoes.
I still ride in it.

Then again I hate it when it gets too hot.

... so you just whine a lot! :p

... so you just whine a lot! :p

Yes :(